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workers. Petrograd's complaint that we are depopulating Petrograd is without foundation. Where else should we seek the best agitators and organizers for state-wide tasks if not in Petrograd? Moscow has already given us about 200 agitators-commissars for the Czechoslovak front. Petrograd should give no less. Former military personnel are desirable, but not obligatory: it is enough to be a firm, devoted revolutionary in order to render invaluable services to the cause of struggle against the Volga and Urals counter-revolution.

We await your energetic and swift support, comrades!

On behalf of the CC of the Russian Communist Party

Lenin. Sverdlov

Printed from a
typewritten copy.

3350
NOTE ON THE DIRECT LINE TO THE CHAIRMAN 
OF THE PETROGRAD SOVIET*
July 27, 1918

We have just received word that Alekseev in the Kuban, with up to 60,000 troops, is advancing against us, implementing the plan of a combined offensive by the Czechoslovaks, the British, and Alekseev's Cossacks. In light of this, and in light of the statements of Petrograd workers who arrived here—Kayurov, Chugarin, and others—that Petrograd could give ten times more if it were not for the opposition of the Petrograd section of the CC**, in light of this I categorically and ultimatively insist on the cessation of all opposition and on the dispatch from Petrograd of ten times the greater number of workers. This is precisely the demand of the Party CC.

I categorically warn that the position of the Republic is dangerous and that the Petrograders, by delaying the dispatch of workers from Petrograd to the Czech front, will take upon themselves responsibility for the possible destruction of the entire cause.

Lenin

* On the original, written in the hand of V. I. Lenin, there is his 
instruction to his secretary: "NB: Return this paper to me with a note 
of what time it was transmitted to Petrograd to the Smolny. Lenin."

** This refers to the Zinovievist faction, which opposed the implementation of Lenin's policy and fostered anti-state parochial tendencies in the Petrograd organizations.

1917 — 1918 YEARS

43977
CREDENTIALS OF THE PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE 
OF THE RSFSR IN THE NORTH-AMERICAN UNITED STATES
June 21, 1918

The Council of People's Commissars hereby declares that it has appointed Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov as plenipotentiary representative of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in the North-American United States. In light of this, the Council of People's Commissars invites all and each to whom it may concern to recognize him in this capacity, and the proper authorities to extend him such assistance as they are able in the execution of the duties entrusted to him and to grant him the enjoyment of all rights, privileges, and immunities which appertain to his office.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.

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NOTE TO THE COMMISSARIAT OF WAR
June 1918

There is here (arrived from Astrakhan—Baku—Tsaritsyn) a Caucasian commissar, Ivanov,—he seems to be a splendid military commander and capable of suppressing kulak uprisings in the proper manner. He is eager to go to the Czechoslovak front. He is asking for 500 men. Is it impossible to satisfy his request quickly? And to what extent?